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Climate Change and Flooding in West Virginia
2016-07-02 02:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Catastrophic floods ravaged southern West Virginia on June 23rd, 2016. As people look to the future, many are debating the role of climate change. Lots of people who grew up and live in southern West Virginia insist flooding has never been as bad as it is today. Not everyone agrees why. It's likely a combination of forces at work, but how much of a role is climate change playing? The Debate Michael Mann is a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University and director...
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Africa Needs More Than $2.7 Trillion To Mitigate Climate Change
2016-07-02 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Africanews: African countries need at least $2.7 trillion for mitigation measures and another $488 billion for adaptation to climatic change to be met in 2030, according to the estimates from Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for adaptation to climate change. Speaking during the Africa Carbon Forum in Kigali, yesterday, Yasser El-Gammal, the World Bank country manager, said the amount is based on countries that have already declared their INDCs, adding that there are few others yet to submit....
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Top U.S. Science Organizations Hammer Congress on Climate ChangeAgain
2016-07-02 00:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Thirty-one of the largest U.S. science societiescollectively representing millions of scientistssent a letter to Congress this week urging lawmakers to recognize anthropogenic climate change and take decisive action to combat it and its effects. The letter continues the decades-long efforts of the scientific community to persuade Congress to act on the climate crisis, says Sarah Green, a chemistry professor at Michigan Technological University who studies climate change and who is affiliated...
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How will Brexit affect climate change?
2016-07-01 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dhaka Tribune: This last week has been a milestone in British history. After three months of campaigning, the British public finally lined up outside polling stations and crossed a box on ballot papers to have their voices heard (the first time, for many). After a tense night of vote counting and fancy graphics among news channels trying to deliver information and poll numbers to an anxious public, the result was "Brexit' -- a decision to leave the European Union after 43 years of membership. No doubt the...
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Climate change warming Asian waters, altering monsoon: Study
2016-07-01 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Each year as temperatures rise across India, farmers look to the sky and pray for rain. The all-important monsoon forecast becomes a national priority, with more than 70 per cent of India's 1.25 billion citizens engaged in agriculture and relying on weather predictions to decide when they will sow their seeds and harvest their crops. But getting the forecast right remains a challenge, thanks to the complex, and still poorly understood, ways in which South Asia's monsoon rains are influenced...
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